The images show nearby stars to Pluto, Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359, sitting in different parts of the sky than what astronomers have witnessed. Due to the distance between the craft and its home, it was able to successfully perform the first interstellar 'parallax' experiment - how a star appears to shift against its background when seen from different locations. From April 22 through 23, the team turned New Horizon's long-range telescope camera to the closets stars, which are Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359. During this time, the craft was some 4.3 billion miles from Earth, which allowed for the parallax effect to occur. Tod Lauer, New Horizons science team member who coordinated the parallax demonstration, said: 'The New Horizons experiment provides the largest parallax baseline ever made -- over 4 billion miles -- and is the first demonstration of an easily observable stellar parallax.'

Source: Daily Mail June 12, 2020 22:17 UTC